Canadian Public Health Agency Lessons on Using Choropleth Maps to Characterize Geographic Distribution of COVID-19 Data

David Guillette; Julie Stratton; Monali Varia; Vivian Chau; Lawrence C. Loh

doi:10.20344/amp.15056

Canadian Public Health Agency Lessons on Using Choropleth Maps to Characterize Geographic Distribution of COVID-19 Data

Authors

David Guillette Region of Peel – Public Health and Dalla Lana School of Public Health. University of Toronto. Toronto.
Julie Stratton Region of Peel – Public Health and Dalla Lana School of Public Health. University of Toronto. Toronto.
Monali Varia Region of Peel – Public Health and Dalla Lana School of Public Health. University of Toronto. Toronto.
Vivian Chau Rotman Research Institute. Baycrest Health Sciences. Toronto.
Lawrence C. Loh Region of Peel – Public Health and Dalla Lana School of Public Health. University of Toronto. Toronto.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20344/amp.15056

Keywords:

Canada, COVID-19, Data Visualization, Geographic Mapping, Maps as Topic, Public Health Surveillance

Abstract

N/a

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biography

Lawrence C. Loh, Region of Peel – Public Health and Dalla Lana School of Public Health. University of Toronto. Toronto.

Referenciado por Tiago Villanueva

Downloads

Published

2020-12-02

How to Cite

Guillette D, Stratton J, Varia M, Chau V, Loh LC. Canadian Public Health Agency Lessons on Using Choropleth Maps to Characterize Geographic Distribution of COVID-19 Data. Acta Med Port [Internet]. 2020 Dec. 2 [cited 2024 Dec. 22];33(12):792-4. Available from: https://actamedicaportuguesa.com/revista/index.php/amp/article/view/15056

Download Citation

Issue

Vol. 33 No. 12 (2020): December

Section

Perspective

License

All the articles published in the AMP are open access and comply with the requirements of funding agencies or academic institutions. The AMP is governed by the terms of the Creative Commons ‘Attribution – Non-Commercial Use - (CC-BY-NC)’ license, regarding the use by third parties.

It is the author’s responsibility to obtain approval for the reproduction of figures, tables, etc. from other publications.

Upon acceptance of an article for publication, the authors will be asked to complete the ICMJE “Copyright Liability and Copyright Sharing Statement “(http://www.actamedicaportuguesa.com/info/AMP-NormasPublicacao.pdf) and the “Declaration of Potential Conflicts of Interest” (http:// www.icmje.org/conflicts-of-interest). An e-mail will be sent to the corresponding author to acknowledge receipt of the manuscript.

After publication, the authors are authorised to make their articles available in repositories of their institutions of origin, as long as they always mention where they were published and according to the Creative Commons license.